Law cannot bow to lawlessness, the power of justice in Article 20!
Special feature of 1905 film network In the spring festival movies, the box office has exceeded 800 million yuan, breaking the cumulative box office record of family films in China film history during the spring festival. As the first film on the theme of the rule of law focusing on "justifiable defense" in China, the popularity of the film Article 20 has also aroused public concern and heated discussion.
"Today’s Film Review" invited Sun Peng, director of the Second Inspection Department of Haidian District People’s Procuratorate and a first-class prosecutor, as a guest program to interpret the meaning behind Article 20 for the audience from a professional perspective.
Vivid image of prosecutor
The film "Article 20" restores the real prosecutors, who are serious and responsible about their work, but also have daily trivialities in their lives. Prosecutors also have ordinary people’s joys and sorrows, which are truly presented in the movies in a slightly humorous way.
Han Ming, the prosecutor, is sometimes overwhelmed with work, sometimes slack, and passive to his wife, Nuo Nuo. Such a prosecutor doesn’t seem to be in line with the image of a prosecutor in everyone’s mind, but this is actually the work and life of a real prosecutor. In many previous political and legal dramas, the image-building of prosecutors was a little too "Gao Daquan", and it was always a feeling of putting on airs. But in fact, prosecutors are ordinary people and have their own lives, and they will make jokes with colleagues after work and leisure, which does not affect the bottom line of objectivity and justice.
As the prosecutor Lu Lingling, the portrayal of the role in the film is more reflected in the work. In the film, Lu Lingling’s "stubborn" investigation of the case impressed many viewers deeply, not only because of the straightforward personality of the characters, but also because of Lu Lingling’s respect for her career.
The case was hosted by Lu Lingling, who was responsible for her own case for life. Therefore, Lu Lingling has been struggling with whether Liu Wenjing had this knife in her car. This knife is the key evidence to finally determine whether Wang Yongqiang is self-defense or revenge. In the case of unclear facts and evidence, how to make a correct judgment is to constantly pursue the integrity of the evidence and the authenticity of the facts.
However, whether Lei Jiayin plays Han Ming or Gao Ye plays Lu Lingling, there is no difference between them in their pursuit of legal profession, and their insistence on fairness and justice has never wavered. Sun Peng, the prosecutor, highly recognized the prosecutor’s image in Article 20, saying, "It is often said on the Internet that people of any profession can’t watch dramas of any profession, such as doctors can’t watch medical dramas and white-collar workers can’t watch workplace dramas. As a judicial officer, there are many times. When I go to see these political and legal dramas, I actually choose to watch them, but this movie has a strong sense of substitution, the case itself is very real, and there are enough drama conflicts. I am willing to regard it as it.
Popularization of Law in "Self-defense"
"Self-defense" is the key word that runs through the narrative of the film Article 20. Han Yuchen stopped bullying on campus, but was framed for deliberately hitting people; Zhang Guisheng, the bus driver, saw that the female passenger was harassed by a strange man and helped him. In anger, he injured the man, but in the end he was sentenced to intentional injury. Wang Yongqiang’s family was deeply bullied by the bully in Kangcun, and Liu Yongjing was stabbed in grief and indignation … … These three cases all have one thing in common, that is, they will all bring about discussions on self-defense, excessive defense and intentional injury. The film takes the realistic theme and the perspective of the little people as the incision and tells the justice and human feelings behind the law.
The contents of Article 20 of the Criminal Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) are as follows:
Article 20 In order to protect the state, public interests, the person, property and other rights of oneself or others from ongoing unlawful infringement, the act of stopping unlawful infringement, which causes damage to the unlawful infringer, belongs to self-defense and does not bear criminal responsibility.
If justifiable defense obviously exceeds the necessary limit and causes great damage, criminal responsibility shall be borne, but the punishment shall be mitigated or exempted.
Taking defensive actions against crimes of assault, murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping and other violent crimes that seriously endanger personal safety, resulting in unlawful infringement of human casualties, is not excessive defense and does not bear criminal responsibility.
In fact, Article 20: Self-defense has existed since the beginning, but before, due to the inability and awareness of obtaining evidence, many cases of self-defense have not been applied accordingly.
Therefore, this film uses a number of cases to show and vivid stories to guide, which makes the most meaningful legal education work on the legal content of Article 20, and also makes more people understand self-defense.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate also issued a document saying, "The reason why Article 20 is concerned is because it really happens to our people. It seems far away, but it may happen to us from time to time, so it is easy to resonate." Therefore, it is very valuable to let everyone know how the law stipulates and then prevent other illegal violations, which is worthy of publicity and promotion.
At the end of the film, Han Ming made the clearest analysis and explanation of the incident in front of all legal professionals, made clear the legal and moral standards that should be met, and made a profound statement, and also told all human laws not to give in to lawlessness. When we face illegal infringement in the future, we should also bravely take up legal weapons and defend our legitimate rights!